Word
Komm rein und schließ die Luke!
Meaning
Come in and close the hatch!
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Komm rein und schließ die Luke!
und
and
kommen
to come
schließen
to close
rein
in (adverb, inward)
Questions & Answers about Komm rein und schließ die Luke!
Why does the sentence use rein instead of herein or hinein?
rein is the colloquial, everyday spoken version of herein (coming in toward the speaker) or hinein (going in away from the speaker). In spoken German and informal writing, people almost always use these short r- forms instead of the formal directional words.
Is rein acting as a separable prefix in this sentence?
Yes! The infinitive verb here is reinkommen (to come in). Because it is a separable verb, the prefix rein gets split and placed at the end of its clause.
Why is it Komm and schließ instead of Kommst and schließt?
These are commands given to one person informally, known as the du imperative. To tell a friend to do something, you take the normal present tense form (du kommst, du schließt) and drop both the pronoun du and the -st ending.
Shouldn't the command for closing be schließe with an extra 'e' at the end?
Grammatically, adding an -e is correct and you will see schließe in formal writing. However, in modern spoken and everyday German, this ending is almost always dropped, leaving just schließ.